Search for Gravitational-wave Inspiral Signals Associated with Short Gamma-ray Bursts During Ligo’s Fifth and Virgo’s First Science Run

Search for Gravitational-wave Inspiral Signals Associated with Short Gamma-ray Bursts During Ligo’s Fifth and Virgo’s First Science Run

Progenitor scenarios for short gamma-ray bursts (short GRBs) include coalescenses of two neutron stars or a neutron star and black hole, which would necessarily be accompanied by the emission of strong gravitational waves. We present a search for these known gravitational-wave signatures in temporal...

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Main Authors: Barsotti, Lisa, Blackburn, Lindy L., Bodiya, Timothy Paul, Cao, Jianshu, Corbitt, Thomas R., Donovan, Frederick J., Duke, I., Evans, Matthew J., Foley, S., Fritschel, Peter K., Harry, Gregory, Hughey, Barbara, Katsavounidis, Erotokritos, MacInnis, Myron E., Markowitz, Jared John, Mason, Kenneth R., Matichard, Fabrice, Mavalvala, Nergis
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemistry
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: IOP Publishing 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/76674
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0219-9706
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6550-3045
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7616-7809
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8166-6805
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8459-4499
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1983-3187
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Summary:Progenitor scenarios for short gamma-ray bursts (short GRBs) include coalescenses of two neutron stars or a neutron star and black hole, which would necessarily be accompanied by the emission of strong gravitational waves. We present a search for these known gravitational-wave signatures in temporal and directional coincidence with 22 GRBs that had sufficient gravitational-wave data available in multiple instruments during LIGO's fifth science run, S5, and Virgo's first science run, VSR1. We find no statistically significant gravitational-wave candidates within a [ – 5, + 1) s window around the trigger time of any GRB. Using the Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney U-test, we find no evidence for an excess of weak gravitational-wave signals in our sample of GRBs. We exclude neutron star-black hole progenitors to a median 90% confidence exclusion distance of 6.7 Mpc.

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